In Comfort Measures Only, Rafael Campo bears witness to the
unspeakable beauty bound up with human suffering. Gathered from his
over twenty-year career as a poet-physician, these eighty-nine
poems-thirty-one of which have never been previously published in a
collection-pull back the curtain in the ER, laying bare our pain
and joining us all in spellbinding moments of pathos. The poet, who
is also truly a healer, revives language itself-its sounds
channeled through our hearts and lungs, its rhythms amplified
through the stethoscope-to make meaning of our bewilderment when
our bodies so eloquently and yet wordlessly fail us. Campo's
transcendent poems, in all their modernity amidst the bleep of
heart monitors and the wail of ambulance sirens, remind us of what
the ancients understood: that poetry sustains us, and whether we
live or die, through what we can imagine and create in our shared
voices we may yet achieve immortality.
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